Los Angeles, April 16, 2008.The prizes will be awarded on April 25 at the 2008 Los Angeles Times annual Festival of Books at UCLA for 2007’s outstanding books in nine categories. “Frozen Tracks” is about a loner who stalks small children, taking videos of them, offering candies and stealing their favorite toys. The story takes protagonist Erik Winter and his team back in time and away from the city, into the heartland of Sweden. “Frozen Tracks”, which received several prestigious awards in Sweden when it came out in 2001, made Ake Edwardson well known also outside Sweden and Scandinavia. Educated as a journalist, Edwardson became a full time writer of fiction in 1995. His first novel, featuring a ragged private eye – not unlike LA' s more famous Philip Marlowe, or Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer, was immediately awarded by the Swedish Crime Academy. The novel, highly appreciated for its detailed authenticity, was set in Gothenburg, the second largest port city in Sweden – on the west coast. His second novel followed in the same genre but was subsequently followed by a new series, “Winterland,” featuring the young bachelor police officer and detective Winter, who had the jitters and who dressed in costumes. The first of the series, “Dance with an Angel,” was a smash hit, not only with its audience but also with the critics. It will appear in English in the Penguin Mysteries in 2009. Edwardson has now written nine novels on Erik Winter and the Gothenburg Police Force. A tenth is forthcoming. Copies have been sold by the millions. Five of them have been filmed for television and shown all over Europe. In the US, three “Winterland” novels have been published, inclduing “Sun & Shadow”, “Never End” and “Frozen Tracks.”
“If you miss the humanism in your work it will become cold, cynical and sometimes dangerous,” says Edwardson, who will sign his books on the Saturday, April 26 at 4 pm at UCLA 26-27/4 at the Festival of Books.
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